At OpenMRS, we provide free, open source Health IT Systems for the planet. I built some cool features, solved bugs, but most importantly, learnt a ton working with the community. Though I don’t write much OpenMRS code now, I volunteer to mentor some awe-inspiring kids who participate in the Google Code-in contest every year.

I was humbled to be awarded the ‘OpenMRS volunteer of the month’ award in June 2017 and wrote about my OpenMRS and GSoC journey being the defining point for me. I was consequently invited to visit the Google HQ in California for the GCI summit.

WolfBeacon - Co-Founder, Lead DeveloperOctober 2016 - February 2018

WolfBeacon comprised of a global team of passionate open source developers. Our goal was to foster a culture of innovation by building the first Open Source, Non Profit Hackathon Management and Aggregation platform.

I drove development, built the platform API, setup infrastructure and recruited contributors among other things. There’s a lot you learn working with a co-founder and running an open source community like a startup, just with no funds!

Brainstorming and figuring out hard problems is fun. I’ve dabbled in some research on Graph Theory, Distributed Systems and Computer Vision.

IIT Bombay - Research InternApril 2018 - May 2018

I’ve had the fortune of working with legendary academician, Dr. S.Sudarshan, at IIT Bombay where we prototyped an intelligent system to detect fake news. My time was spent reading research literature, bootstrapping the project and fine-tuning search algorithms while having enlightening conversations on the future of computing!

The best hacks solve problems identified through our own unique experiences. Most software projects I’ve built and am proud of are a result of this philosophy.

CrackMeUp - A twitter bot that tweets some of the funniest jokes on the internet. Finding an endless stream of jokes have never been easier. It’s something like the Unix command fortune, but for jokes.

CapSnap - A tool that uses intelligent image processing algorithms to remove black bar captions from snapchat images. This allowed me to quickly get rid of captions and retrieve the original snap, making for a great photo sometimes!

iRackBot - Officially featured on the Slack Community API Platform, this bot allows Open Source communities to publicly record their chats on IRC while allowing users to use a Slack as a more convenient chat platform.

I’ve also done a fair bit of Competitive Programming (CodeChef, qualifying for the ACM ICPC Regionals). This was what really got me coding in the first place and helped me build up a lot of fundamentals as a budding programmer.